But they are shit. Why do I need to buy a electric that looks like acoustic when I can just buy an acoustic violin? Also, electric violin is kinda like cheating on an exam. You don’t have to worry about intonation, articulation, etc. it requires less skill.
Same way with electric guitars. When Les Paul first demonstrated his electric guitar prototype, it was just a rail with strings and a fretboard attached, and no one knew it was supposed to be a guitar. After he added a wooden body, the things sold like hotcakes.
Good video. Just adding another piece of info. It's good to have at least the initial body part (don't know the name in english) of the violin for reference when shifting positions but I noticed some of your electric violins doesn't have it (but most does). So I think it would be just harder (for me) to play it.
I was thinking the same thing. For violinists switching between acoustic and electric instruments, playing without the upper right bout would be very awkward. They would have to completely relearn shifting and intonation in high positions, and shifting to high positions would simply become more difficult because the arm would have to do all of the shifting, covering a large distance on its own, whereas on an acoustic violin, shifting to high positions is achieved by an elastic motion of the arm, hand, and fingers all stretching or contracting together to cover the distance of the shift.
I played violin from age 7 to 16. I'm now in my 30s and really want to play again. Even when I was young I loved the look and idea of electric violins. Everyone that you should in this video look amazing! Think it's time I save up to buy
Much like a guitar you gotta dial the tone in on your amp also many of the electric violinists I've seen have distortion on for some reason like it's a guitar. Sometimes it works but most times it sounds not so great because violins weren't meant to be distorted. Turning the treble and mid end on the amp down a little should help too
I have an electric violin, I'm not exactly great at it though cause I'm still learning. I don't if this is true for all violins, but I know the one I got was much cheaper then most acoustic violins
Totally man. Acoustic violins that are generally considered to be "very good" usually cost thousands and thousands of dollars (the really good ones are 10-100k). The most expensive electric violins don't come close to those numbers.
My acoustic student violin is just a few hundred($400? Idk its been a few years) and its great😅 idk why anyone would ever pay more than $5,000 for a violin
It's like with pianos. You'd rather want the electric one rather than a classical piano, it's just so darn expensive. Still does the job and sounds good and your wallet won't cry...as much. So 🤷♀️
I personally would be afraid to get too used to playing an electric vioin that didn't have a similar body to an acoustic violin. This is because when I go higher up on an acoustic violin I have to perfect certain positions to work around the body of the violin to reach the higher notes, but if it is just a fingerboard with strings and nothing to work around, I would not need to use the same techniques. Maybe I am being a worrier but it would make me very sad if I messed up my technique for when I wanted to play a classic acoustic.
The good news about electrics is that many of them have at least an "upper bout indicator" which is meant to be a reference point where your hand would normally be touching the shoulder of an acoustic violin, especially for shifting purposes. There are even several models of dedicated electrics, like the MSI Renaissance, which give you the full outline of an acoustic and could help maintain that acoustic feeling and hand position!
My 5-string ns design and my acoustic violin feel so different to one another that if I have a gig or a recording session coming up with one or the other, I only practice with that one. But it takes a surprisingly short time to adjust to each instrument!
I mean, yeah But at the same time i can't stop thinking violins also to a degree follow a *"posh"* aesthetic so to speak, it is an expensive instrument and it would be weird to many if it wasn't like that wouldn't it? In this superficial society, anything in those lines can be true But maybe I'm just stupid, that's also a possibility
Acoustic violins stopped developing in about 1850 with the heavier bass bar but they could sound better. I did a ton of research into this 30 years ago. Violins just stopped evolving, there is no reason to look as they do!
If you want to hear some amazing music with the electric violin, look up Emilie Autumn. Especially her instrumental album Laced/Unlaced is one of my all-time favorite albums, I don't think anyone in the world can play it as well as her.
What I’ve always wondered is even just considering acoustic instruments, why there are a huge variety of guitar shapes and styles (dreadnought, parlor, manouche, Spanish classical, Russian classical, Russian steel string, with/without cutaway, and on and on) but just about every acoustic violin follows an almost identical shape?
That's partly because violin variants aren't called violins, instead they're called "vielle" or "pochette" or "lyra viol" or "rebec" or "gadulka". So they use a different word to refer to a different shape.
@@thinkpad20 Also most (by numbers made, so Les Pauls, SGs, Teles and Strats, and their numerous knock-offs) electric guitars have mostly shape elements of acoustic guitars that they absolutely _don't_ need to function as an electric guitar. Only Steinberger has had any success at all, and that said, not much, with designing electric guitars reduced to their minimum necessary elements.
My introduction to electric violins was trans Siberian orchestra. That chick absolutely shreds on that thing. Don't know if they still have the same person leading their violins nowadays but yeah, she's a show stealer. And the body of the violin just looks dope.
Idk this guy, never seen his videos before. Fucking cool tho. Obviously it’s accurate and a great perspective, bringing a big name into the explanation. Cool guy.
The funny thing is that electric guitar players are completely opposite of electric violin players. Guitarists believe in cork sniffing and voodoo. Tone wood lololol.
@@ElectricViolinShop Too cool. That whole band blew me away bc it was all bowed instruments. Such good stuff. Monkey bats 😃 Hey, tell him I said hi 👋 😃
That doesn't really make sense to me. The body not only amplifies the sound, but gives it depth and resonance. Cut out all the wood and shape and it changes the sound.
For some reason, I can't hold the bow normally. My pinkie slides off the back of the bow, and feels simply too long to sit on top. My other fingers are all in their right positions; thumb bent in front of the frog notch, and so on. And the advice I was given by another RU-vidr was "if it feels like it's going to drop out of your hands, you're holding it right". That makes no sense!
Um, doesn't really make sense. An acoustic violin must look like that otherwise it doesn't sound like a violin... ok. Well considering an electronic violin just amplifies the same vibrations shouldn't need the same resonant chamber? Just not as big? Is that why they sound kind of flat?
I would've answered the question with "Why don't electric organs take up half of an entire chuch like pipe organs do? Think about it and explain it to me"
What is the best way to amplify an acoustic violin. I'm talking about making it be heard while playing with drums and electric guitars without compromise on tone quality thank you
Eletric violins dont need to have acoustic amplification cuz they have eletric amplification. The current violin design was improved through centuries, it didnt started like this. Centuries of improvements made the acoustic box to look like how it is today, especially those two S like openings. You can say that the violin shape of today is nothing less than perfection. But again, eletric violins, like eletric guitars, drums, pianos or any other instrument else dont need their acoustic reverberation mechanisms, and in some cases.not even the original sound producing mechanism, like eletric pianos, that doesnt have strings, its audio is digital
To be pedantic the body of the violin doesn't amplify the sound (that would violate conservation of energy), what it does is called impedance matching, here's how it works. Violin strings are very bad at transferring their energy to the air around them because they mostly just cut through it, however they are pretty good at transferring energy into the wood that supports it called the bridge because it's in direct contact. The bridge then transfers the vibrations to the rest of the violin's body through the sound post (a stick that sits inside the body between the bridge and the back of the violin). Once the body of the violin is vibrating it is very good at transferring that vibration to the air because it has large solid surfaces. The front part of a speaker (called a diaphragm) works the same way to transfer the sound from the driver to the air. The lower the frequency, the larger the surface has to be in order to do impedance matching, which is why the body's of cellos and basses are so much larger (not to mention that the strings also have to be longer). It also acts as a resonance chamber, which allows the sound to bounce around inside, changing the tone of the sound and making it sound nicer to our ears.
In electric instruments, less isn't more, you can see it on electric guitars, shure, they don't have a huge box, but when you see one of those headless strats when the only body is the "pick guard" the only thing that I can think of is, damn, that guitar simply sucks
I'd love to see AI find shapes that have the best form for function. It's amazing that humans were able to do this through millenia of trial and error. If only texts weren't destroyed throughout history.
Steinberger made the best tuners for electric guitar. Then Gibson bought them and just a few years ago took them off the market, only to be used in Firebirds :(
Electric guitars should be the same but for some reason not that many brands offer such guitars. People prefer playing an instrument that's double the weight it should be for some reason
electric violins make me incredibly angry. they come out naturally auto-tuned, which in turn makes it easier where as if you play an acoustic violin you have to actually work to make it sound good and whole.
@@ElectricViolinShop it’s not inaccurate. i’ve been playing the acoustic violin for quiet a while, and it took me around 3 years to get it sound even somewhat whole. a lot of electric instruments, when plugged in, come out in a natural autotune. and while you can definitely hear the mistakes more than an acoustic instrument, acoustic instruments are far harder to make sound good.
they need pegs, the f hole, a bridge, many other things, i personally dislike electric violins, cause you can easily fake playing or use an auto tuner.
Resonance on the body can be heard through the guitar. You technically can shave the body off as you technically could with an acoustic but it will sound worse.
I used to want an electric violin so bad but now I just don't see the point, I mainly play classical music so what benefit could I possibly get from playing an electric violin?
Were you under the impression that you can't play classical music on an electric violin? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h_fGhyx9CNE.html
tbh you wouldn’t really get any. You do not get the same rich tones from an electric violin that you’d get from a nice acoustic violin that you’ll need for classical music. If you were to busk or get into *sigh* pop music and more commercialized violin, then you would go for the electric violin.
@@erins6497 I play classical music on an electric all the time. I can get richer, deeper sounds than an acoustic ever dreamed of. Plus, extended range and I can sound like I’m playing in a concert hall even if I’m not.
playing an electric violin that isnt regular form is a weird experience. your muscle memory for higher positions is thrown off since there isnt a body next to the strings
You totally could, in theory. I've definitely seen violins made with a smooth waist. I can't say I've seen a round sound hole instead of f-holes, though.
